Placed in the Garden of Eden

⁸The LORD God planted a garden in the east, in Eden, and there he put the man he had formed. ⁹Out of the ground, the LORD God grew every kind of tree — beautiful to look at and good for food. In the middle of the garden stood the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it split into four rivers. ¹¹The first river was named Pishon, and it flowed around the land of Havilah, where gold is found. ¹²The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are also found there. ¹³The second river was named Gihon, and it flowed around the land of Cush. ¹⁴The third river was named Tigris, and it flowed east of Assyria. The fourth river was the Euphrates. ¹⁵The LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to care for it and maintain it. ¹⁶The LORD God gave the man this instruction: "You may freely eat from any tree in the garden, ¹⁷but do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. For on the day you eat from it, you will surely die.